Crafts and Life

Lila Wilkins has it all: the home of her dreams in the charming town of Inspiration Valley, North Carolina; a perfect police officer boyfriend; and a new job she absolutely loves. At the Book and Author Festival, which is sponsored by the Novel Idea Literary Agency, Lila expects to discover some talented new authors, but what she finds instead is the body of an editor to whom she bears an eerie resemblance.
 
Trouble is, the editor’s death isn’t the only literary murder taking place. Soon a blossoming author is also killed, and Lila has a gut feeling that the two murders are linked. Now she must hunt down the dark figure who killed these women—and to her surprise, she just might find the clues hidden in a manuscript…

Things are going pretty well in Lila's world, she has been made permanent at her job (reading books and partial books for a living – brilliant!), she has her new home and her new boyfriend (in the form of Officer Sean Griffiths), the only downside seems to be that Trey (her son) is still living at the commune/Co-operative and whilst she has been able to delay his college start date by a term, any more and he would have to start the whole application process again.  As part of her job she is involved with a Book and Author Festival, but even before she gets there she gets a creepy thriller pitch sent through to her (which she promptly forwards to a colleague – she deals with the Cozy Genre, not the hard core), at the Festival she meets a lady who, at first glance, could be her double.  This all seems fun until her double ends up dead and then there is another body.

Lila trawls through the manuscripts trying to find clues, at the same time Sean is working hard to catch the murderer, oh and Trey is worried about the commune. all in a new days work for this single mother!

I wondered if the second book would be as fun as the first, with Lila no longer having to worry about her job, her cash flow and everything else, but my slight worry was misguided, this is a fun, frenetic, frolic through crime and crime writers and I am only sorry that there seems to be 5 books only in the series!